Classic/Essential/Favorite Black Metal Releases

If you're just starting out listening to black metal, or you think you know it all, here is a list of the very best, the classics, or just some of my personal favorite black metal albums.
Grab your corpse paint and get to it!

1349- Beyond The Apocalypse

Abazagorath- Sacraments Of The Final Atrocity

Abhorer- Zygotical Sabbatory Anabapt

Abigail- Forever Street Metal Bitch

Abigor- Nachthymnen (From The Twilight Kingdom), Opus IV

Abruptum- In Umbra Malitiae Ambulabo In Aeternum in Triumpho Tenebrau

Absu- Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L., Tara

Absurd- Totenlieder

Abyssos- Fhinstanian Nightbreed

Addaura- Burning Of The Ancient

Agalloch- The Mantle, Pale Folklore, Ashes Against The Grain

Akercocke- The Goat of Mendes

Aldaaron- Supreme Silence

Alghazanth- Wreath Of Thevatat

Annthennath- States Of Liberating Departure

Anorexia Nervosa- Drudenhaus

Antaeus- Cut Your Flesh And Worship Satan, Blood Libels

Archgoat- The Light-Devouring Darkness

Arckanorum Astrum- Prozrenie

Arckanum- PPPPPPPPPPP, Kampen

Arcturus- Aspera Hiems Symfonia

Armagedda- Only True Believers

Asbel- Elgeist: Hymn For Lost Souls

Asgaroth- Trapped In The Depths Of Eve

Askival- Eternity

Astel Oscora- Eridian, Wormshire

Astriaal- Renascent Misanthropy

Aura Noir- Black Thrash Attack, Hades Rise

Averse Sefira- Homecoming’s March

Bathory- Bathory, The Return, Under The Sign Of The Black Mark, Blood Fire Death

Beastcraft- Into The Pit Of Burning Hell

Behemoth- As The Forests Dream Eternally, From The Pagan Vastlands, Grom

Beherit- The Oath Of Black Blood, Drawing Down The Moon, Engram

Behexen- By The Blessing Of Satan, Rituale Satanum, Blessed Be The Darkness Demo